Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Bromyard He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Bromyard
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Bromyard The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Bromyard
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Bromyard Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Bromyard
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Bromyard Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bromyard
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Bromyard "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Bromyard
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Bromyard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Bromyard
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Bromyard This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Bromyard
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Bromyard "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Bromyard
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Bromyard "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Bromyard
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Bromyard Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Bromyard
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Bromyard "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Bromyard
